如果我们继续浪费水的话，河流总有一天会枯竭的。

If we continue to waste water, the river would eventually dry up.

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一个滴落在农夫的鼻子上，另一个滴落在一株枯竭的植物上。

One fell on the farmer's nose, and the other on a thirsty plant.

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正如吉姆·洛尔和托尼·施瓦茨所写，如果你花太多时间工作，就需要更多的时间用于恢复，否则就会面临精力枯竭的风险。

As Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz have written, if you have too much time in the performance zone, you need more time in the recovery zone, otherwise you risk burnout.

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And what I recognized was first of all, how impoverishing that was spiritually to not be able to bring my faith identity into the public square.

而我意识到,第一，我们精神上很枯竭,因为我们不能将自己的宗教身份,带入公共场所。

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So in the time of declining resources, we might look what we were doing with what we get in return for it.

在资源逐渐枯竭的时刻，倒是可以看看我们的付出到底得到了什么。

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And No.2, I think that it wasn't just spiritually impoverishing personally.

第二，我认为那不只是,个人的精神枯竭。

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